Video of AD Taurus pistol

[Graves]

For those defending their revolvers, be warned. I had a very horrible, unsafe experience with one of their revolvers. After three returns to be repaired under their lifetime warranty I finally traded the thing off. I haven't owned one of their products since and sleep very well at night.

Same here. Timing was fubar, nothing like digging copper out of your knuckles and face.
I honestly don't know how they're still in business...

[ray1970]

Interesting. I have owned 5-6 taurus (2-pt1911, one raging bull, 2 pt-92, and one other revolver in 44 mag) and NEVER had a problem with them. I currently have 2 PT 92, one with at least 3k round and along from my hk usp 45, it's one of the most reliable guns I have ever owned.... Now I had crappy 150$ used glock 22 which shot 30 degree off bore and a 1200$ kimber 1911 which developed a cracked frame after 200 rnds.... I guess I am lucky, or I take good care of my guns or Taurus product are just as good as other, but get a bad reputation just because of their name.

Everyone makes an occasional lemon. Even Mercedes and BMW. Perhaps that is what I got when I bought mine. I'm glad you have had good luck with yours so far. For what it's worth, I think their 92 series autos are great. I had a couple of friends that had them and they ran like a top. I just won't own one.

[ray1970]

And, as far as that video is concerned, I would be willing to bet some hack did a "trigger job" on it. I'm fairly certain that thing should have a firing pin block of some sort.

[BPTactical]

When I worked in a local shop we sold lots of the T brand. One thing we made very clear to a prospective customer was that they do have one of the best warranties in the business.
It is also the one we saw exercised the most.
From my standpoint Taurus is a PITA, there are a large amount of parts that are "restricted, factory only" which means I cannot get them. I can understand to a degree with critical parts such as the hammer and trigger that one really needs to know what they are doing or as Graves mentioned, your digging copper out of something. But for a spring and plunger that just keeps tension on a cylinder stop?
Give me a break.
I have worked on a bunch of them, anything from Judges that had timing issues and chambers that looked like they were machined with a rock to PT1911's for trigger jobs.
They are abhorrent. They vary so widely in quality and fit n finish from one gun to the next it is frightening. I have had PT1911'S that an Ed Brown hammer would not fit without surface grinding and yet the next one there was .020 side to side slop, and I can assure you it wasn't the fault of the hammer. You don't even want to try swapping an aftermarket barrel in one, your fingers will bleed from hours of file work.
I pretty much gave up action jobs on their wheelguns, too much work for too little return and no consistency from one to the other.
24/7's are total garbage. You give one of those to somebody you don't like.
My guess on the item in the video- high round count substandard pistol, likely heavy wear on a poorly manufactured and improperly hardened sear and or striker. The shaking was sufficient to cause enough movement of the sear to allow the striker to drop.
The fact it would do this with the safety engaged is terrifying as well.
Ray may be on to something as well, quite possible it was altered at some point. Extremely dirty could also have some bearing.

One model they do make that is worthwhile, at least as a truck gun is the PT92. I had one for a while and while no M9, a decent pistol that I have seen few issues with from other folks.

[hurley842002]

Same here. Timing was fubar, nothing like digging copper out of your knuckles and face.
I honestly don't know how they're still in business...

Because there are plenty of people like ruthabagah that will still buy and defend their "name".

[ben4372]

I have an early 38 snub nose. Decent but not fantastic. Bought A .22 revolver a couple years ago. Terrible. My Crossman 357 revolver has a better trigger. Even after a ton of shooting, it's still rough. And for all the folks that say the PT92 is decent, it might be but for few bucks more I can get a used 92FS.

[Rabid]

The reason the PT92/99 is a decent pistol is because they are made in a former Beretta plant.

[Dave]

I own a Taurus snubbie .357 and it has about 250 rounds through it with no problems. Fired a raging bull once, and though not a great trigger pull I have seen worse. Their 1911 I shot on the other hand had a FTE every 3rd round no matter who shot it. I carry my snubbie concealed often and have no worries about it. With what I have seen I won't buy any of their semi autos, and now that I make more than what the Montgomery GI Bill and Guard drills paid in 2004 I can afford better revolvers.